A human being is essentially an eye; the rest is merely flesh and skin: whatever the eye has beheld, he is that. A jar will submerge a mountain with its water when the eye of the jar is open to the Sea. When the interior of the jar has a Channel to the Sea, that jar will overwhelm a river as great as the Oxus. In the same way whatever
Mathnawi
Poetry Corner: Wings of Desire
People are distracted by objects of desire, And afterwards, repent of the lust they’ve indulged, Because they have indulged with a phantom And are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusionary is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wings drop
